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Deepak Chopra on Waking Up to Your Full Potential #130

Nov 4, 2020

In this enlightening conversation, Deepak Chopra, a world-renowned pioneer in integrative medicine and author of 91 books, dives into the essence of waking up to our full potential. He challenges the culture of instant gratification, offering insights on the importance of self-awareness during grief. Chopra shares practical meditation techniques to enhance consciousness and foster emotional healing. Listeners are encouraged to explore their beliefs and cultivate gratitude, ultimately leading to transformation and a deeper connection with themselves.

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INSIGHT

Sleepwalking Through Life

People are like biological robots, driven by automatic responses.
They lack freedom in their waking state due to conditioned reflexes.

ANECDOTE

Early Career Stress

Deepak Chopra used to cope with stress as a doctor using alcohol and cigarettes.
He later realized this was a common issue amongst physicians, now known as burnout.

INSIGHT

Waking Up

The most important lifestyle practice is to wake up from automatic, conditioned responses.
This involves recognizing that our waking state is often a form of sleepwalking.

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My goal with the podcast is to have conversations that matter. And as part of that process, I want to push and challenge myself, and by doing so, hopefully do the same for you. Today's guest is someone who entirely fits the bill. It is the one and only Dr. Deepak Chopra.

Deepak is a medical doctor, a world-renowned pioneer in integrative medicine and personal transformation and Time magazine has described him as ‘one of the top 100 heroes and icons of the century’. He recently published his 91st book called ‘Total Meditation’, which offers an exploration of the physical, mental and spiritual benefits that a practice of meditation can bring.

In our conversation today, we touch on a whole variety of different subjects, including the problem of instant gratification. We delve into how much of what we do and think is influenced by those around us. Many of us as we get older, or even in response to challenging life circumstances, whether it be grief, loss or heartache, are grappling with the eternal existential questions – Who am I? And why am I here? Deepak provides some really practical tools to help us answer these questions for ourselves. And he also shares some tried and tested techniques to help us get started with meditation.

Deepak believes that most of us sleep walk through life and are not in control of our thoughts and feelings. The underlying theme throughout this conversation is how we can wake up to our full potential by accessing new levels of awareness that will ultimately cultivate a clear vision and help us rediscover who we really are. I found this conversation stimulating and felt my mind very much expanded afterwards. I hope it does the same for you.

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